Mass Production and Mountain Marketplaces in Norway in the Viking and Middle Ages

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10998634
AutoresKjetil Loftsgarden (0000-0002-0739-3084, University of Oslo, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen64
Número1
Páginas94-115
Fecha de publicación2020-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedieval Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0076-6097 • E-ISSN: 1745-817X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00766097.2020.1754662
OpenAlexW3038550349
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas22

AS HUBS IN STABLE ECONOMIC NETWORKS, mountain1 marketplaces are seen as integral to the increase and eventual mass production of iron in the Viking period and Middle Ages. The amount of iron produced exceeded local and regional demands, and constituted a valuable commodity from the inland areas of Norway and Sweden. This paper shows a dynamic trade network — one that was adaptable to trade patterns and surplus production. The marketplaces enabled an inland population to obtain both the products they needed and those they wanted, and gave the populous communities along the coast — the medieval towns, the royal and ecclesiastical elites — access to the resources and commodities from the hinterland via trade networks flowing through these marketplaces. This integration of inland resources into domestic and international trade can be considered to be part of a functioning market economy in the western Scandinavian inland from the late Viking period

Archaeology · Business · Commodity · Economics · Economy · Geography · Middle Ages · Period (music · Population · Production (economics · Sociology · Viking Age · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · European Linguistics and Anthropology · Historical and Archaeological Studies